Melissanthi, a poetess of Athens who died in 1991 and whose name means "bee flower", wrote many beautiful and thought provoking poems.

David set five of these to music (as above)

Four of the melodies that they inspired went on to give birth to these expressive guitar duets.

The guitars are equal partners throughout, taking turns to accompany and to sing the melody lines. The rhythms themselves are an idiosyncratic mix of English and Greek, but especially in the fast sections (1st and 5th movements) the typical 7/4 pervades the texture and should prove to be the rhythm that the audience will take away with them after the concert.

Video of Acacia from “Honey Flowers”

A Dark Goddess based on my setting of Hour Zero is a dramatic work for flute with either string orchestra or piano accompaniment: